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May 10, 2017 1:07 PM   Subscribe

 
This is really cool, thanks!

(the gallery of diagrams is worth looking at, as well as this blog of diagrams)
posted by blahblahblah at 1:23 PM on May 10, 2017


The application of SankeyMATIC that caught my eye recently was How 52 ninth graders spell camouflage as a Sankey diagram, especially when contrasted with the original pie chart of that data.
posted by straw at 2:31 PM on May 10, 2017 [5 favorites]


I want to run this over my checking account statement, but I'm afraid of what I'll see.
posted by JoeZydeco at 2:47 PM on May 10, 2017


Hey, I think this is the first time something I've made has hit the front page. :)

*waves*

The SankeyMATIC twitter feed retweets diagram examples found in the wild; it's got more variety than the Gallery page.
posted by s.e.b. at 2:57 PM on May 10, 2017 [19 favorites]


s.e.b.: "Hey, I think this is the first time something I've made has hit the front page. "

Well since you're here... is there a reason you decided not to check if the digraph passed in is acyclic? You check that in-weight and out-weight are the same, but in the case that you pass something like x -> y -> x, the diagram you get out is nonsensical in an even worse way.
posted by TypographicalError at 4:14 PM on May 10, 2017 [1 favorite]


Also, I meant to add: great work. It's always neat to find clean tools like this online. :)
posted by TypographicalError at 4:14 PM on May 10, 2017 [1 favorite]


Omg thank you alby and s.e.b. both! I have been looking for a simpler way to build Sankeys for ages. I feel like this post is magically just for me.
posted by canisbonusest at 4:59 PM on May 10, 2017 [1 favorite]


I think I'll certainly get some mileage out of this tool. Great find! And thanks for making it available, s.e.b!
posted by Harald74 at 11:53 PM on May 10, 2017 [1 favorite]


I use this for planning at work. It's great. There's really nothing better than a Sankey diagram for visualising flows. It's easy to make a spreadsheet to build the data format that Sankeymatic consumes.
posted by michaelhoney at 2:40 AM on May 11, 2017 [1 favorite]


TypographicalError: The short answer is, it's still in progress.

Here's a list of outstanding issues on github – detecting & warning about cycles is issue #10. :)

My development pace has been... very gradual since launch, but I still do plan to make more improvements in the coming months/years, addressing several of those issues.

More generally:

My two guiding ideas when coding it were 1) "Make it easy enough that a motivated high school student can figure it out" and 2) Tim O'Reilly's credo "Create more value than you capture".

It's been slowly-and-steadily reaching a wider audience (globally, even), and that makes me happy.
posted by s.e.b. at 6:59 AM on May 11, 2017 [1 favorite]


I just made three diagrams using this for a talk I'm giving next month. Very nice work, thank you for sharing it!
posted by wintermind at 7:52 AM on May 11, 2017


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